Thursday 17 January 2013January 16, 2013 (RUMBEK) - Inter-clan clashes involving sections of the Dinka ethnic group reignited in Lakes state on Wednesday at a cattle camp between Marial-bek and Ghun, according to local officials. Lakes State Minister of (...)

Saturday 2 June 2012June 1, 2012 (RUMBEK) - The Ministry of Interior in the Republic of South Sudan government has sacked Lakes State’s Police Commissioner after his arbitrary arrest and harassment of a journalist in Rumbek last month, a source in the (...)

Friday 28 September 2012September 27, 2012 (RUMBEK) - South Sudan’s Lakes State says it has arrested the policemen involved in the pay-cut-related shooting that resulted in the injury of the Rumbek Central police inspector on 5 September. Lakes State (...)

Saturday 19 January 2013January 18, 2013 (RUMBEK) - Fighting in Lakes State’s Rumbek Central County has left 25 people dead and 30 people with gunshot wounds, in clashes on Friday that began earlier this week over grazing areas between rival cattle herding (...)

Saturday 12 January 2013January 11, 2013 (JUBA) - A cattle herding group in Cueibet County of Lakes State clashed with soldiers from South Sudan’s army (SPLA) on Friday, resulting in the death of seven soldiers and three civilians from neighbouring Warrap (...)

Monday 14 January 2013January 13, 2013 (RUMBEK) - Twelve men suspected to have participated in the killing of seven South Sudanese soldiers and three civilians from neighbouring Warrap have been arrested in Lakes State, according to local authorities. (...)

Tuesday 18 September 2012September 17, 2012 (RUMBEK) - The Director of Catholic Radio Good News, Fr. Don Bosco Ochieng, was physically attack by unknown group of people at around 10pm on Tuesday night in Rumbek market, while buying phone credit.
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Holding accountable those enabling genocide in Sudan2016-12-05 05:30:49
Eric Reeves
As grim genocide by attrition in Darfur is set to enter its fifteenth year, as Khartoum’s claim of a purely nominal “cease-fire” in South Kordofan is belied by repeated reports of Sudan (...)